The sun was already setting. In the recruitment site, candidates were standing in their own groups. When the candidates registered their names, they were given uniform which kind of looked like the real Blue Commandos uniform but slightly different than the real one so everyone looked the same. The only thing different was the code number given to them. The code numbers were attached to the front of their shirts.
Sehanna and Blue were with their group. They were standing out within their group as they both had the aura which indicated they were not normal. Since they both had black hairs, they looked like twins on the surface. The others also had hard time approaching them as they were not acquainted. Most of the candidates came from different cities so no one knew each other well.
Sehanna sighed, "How long do we have to wait? It's boring".
Blue conveyed through his mind, "It took a lot of time for them to make groups, it will start any time now".
"But why at night? Why can't they do this in day time?" Sehanna was agonizing out loud when she heard the reply to it by a voice she was very similar.
"It's because the Blue Commandos work at night most of the time".
Sehanna was surprised to see the person and grinned saying, "I never thought you would be interested in Blue Commandos. So, this is the reason you left in such a hurry ha..., Nina?".
Nina was also within the same group that she was in.
Nina answered, "I am the one who was surprised seeing you here. It seems like I am facing a tough rival".
Sehanna chuckled, "I am glad to have a rival like you but I am afraid that I am not worthy of that. The real rival for you is not me".
Nina, "hmmmm.. it's hard to believe you". She smiled saying that.
"By the way, this is Blue, my brother". Sehanna introduced Blue to Nina. Blue slightly bowed his head saying hello to her.
Nina was slightly surprised as she looked at blue and asked, "You have a brother...! Are you guys twins?"
Sehanna and Blue looked at each other, and both their lips curved upwards together as they smiled. "Yeah, something like that". Sehanna replied.
Nina didn't understand and asked, "what do you mean by 'something like that'?".
Before she could reply, an unknown voice was heard as a hand snaked around Blue from behind and held his shoulders firmly, "hey, can I join you? You guys seems interesting". The voice belonged to boy with a huge smile on his face who had approached Blue silently. He looked older than Blue and he had golden hair which was long and was tied in a ponytail. He looked very sneaky with his cat like eyes.
Blue was shocked by the sudden intrusion. "He is fast. Why didn't I notice him approaching me. He can't be underestimated" is what was going on in Blue's mind as he roughly grabbed the hand that was around his shoulder, twisted it, kicked his leg and made him kneel on the ground.
The boy yelled, "Stop it. It hurts. Please".
Sehanna and Nina looked at them both as Sehanna thought, "Bad move dude".
After a while, Blue let him go. The boy, holding his twisted shoulder said with a teary eyes, "You are so mean. I just wanted to be friends with you. Why did you do that?".
Blue ignored him turning his head to other side with a irritated expression.
Sehanna eased the situation saying, "Sorry, he hates it when people approach him from back".
The boy looked at Blue and said, "What kind of hobby is that? I will note it down so that I don't forget and get hurt again". Saying that, he walked towards Shehanna and came face to face with her. With his face so close to her, he asked, "You.... what are you?".
Sehanna and Blue both were shocked. Blue was thinking, "did he found out something? No, it can't be. After all, Mantra (spells) is too strong for others to notice". He continued thinking the worst possibilities. "Still, what if he found out? What am I gonna do?". His face became grimm as he thought, "If he found out, I will just kill him". He got himself ready for the worst.
The boy asked Sehanna again, "What are you?.... From all the girls that I have seen, you sure are different. Probably it's because... YOU ARE WAY TOO CUTER".
Sehanna and Blue turned into stones for a second and thought, "what?"
Blue got irritated by the boy's silliness and hot his hand in a lock again.
The boy screamed, "It hurts, I am sorry, let me go".
Nina who was watching them laughed and Sehanna sighed in a relief.
After the boy was released by Blue, he introduced himself. "I am numbered 537. Nice to meet you. Since personal information is prohibited, you can call me by my first name Surya".
Nina introduced herself, "I am numbered 538, nice meeting you, You can call me Nina".
"I am Sehanna. As you can see, my number is 539, and this is Blue and his number is 540". Sehanna introduced herself and also Blue.
The four of them didn't introduce themselves by their second names as they wanted to hide their family names.
Surya asked Blue, "Hey, you look strong, are you good at Maya and Mantra too?".
Blue ignored him as he thought, "He is annoying". He looked at Shehanna and pleaded through his thoughts, "Seha, I can't handle him, get rid of him please".
Surya continued his one sided ranting, "Hey, stop being rude, talk to me man".
Sehanna thought to herself, "Blue never had any friends before so it's a good chance for him to make some friends". As she thought this, she turned to Surya and said, "Sorry. It's hard for him to get along with others since he can't talk".
As they heard Shehanna, Nina and Surya became silent. They didn't know what to say. After few seconds.. Surya, "Sorry, my bad". He apologized to Blue. As usual, Blue still ignored him.
Nina asked Sehanna, "what happened to him?".
"Nothing happened, He was born that way".
Nina felt sad and said, "Sorry, it's kind of sad".
Sehanna, "Don't worry about it. Blue accepted his conditions long ago and he is doing well".
Surya hugged Blue and said with tears in his eyes, "Don't worry my friend, I will be your friend forever, even though you can't talk and still ignores me".
Blue got irritated and thought, "Where did you come from dude? You are seriously annoying".
Sehanna and Nina both were laughing looking at them. As their conversation went on, they noticed others around them becoming silent. When they looked around, they saw the examiners walking towards different groups.
An examiner came towards their group and the group became alert. He was wearing Blue Commandos uniform. (Uniform was blue in colour indicating the Blue Commandos. Dark blue tight pants with blue shirt tucked inside and a dark blue vest. A black belt was on his waist which was carved with the symbol of Sarva Society. The symbol was quite simple. It had double circles in golden colour and between the two circles was some writing in ancient language which was also in golden colour. He wore a black open finger gloves and black knee high converse. They always had their blue masks on and the masks differed from person to person. Some commandos wore dark blue hoodies instead of vests and hide their weapons inside their hoodies. The Blue Commandos rankings can be known by looking at their hands. On their wrist was a black wrist band with stars of Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum attached to it indicating their ranks).
An assistant of the examiner gave him a tablet which contained information about the candidates. He checked the group info on tablet, looked at them briefly and said, "So, you guys are the 27th group, the lost group. Now everyone follow me". As he said this, he turned around and started walking away with the group following behind him. Sehanna looked around and noticed that every group had a single examiner with a assistant and those examiners led all the groups to different locations. Sehanna's group was led inside a huge building that looked like a martial arts training ground but looked little different than the actual one.
Sehanna along with her group were standing accordingly to their given numbers in an attention pose. The examiner was standing in front of them. He started explaining the exam process.
"The exam has total of 3 stages and every candidate must pass in all the stages. In the first stage, we will measure your Shakti. The second stage is Martial arts, in wich we check your physical strength. In the last stage, we will check your ability to use Shakti (Maya and Mantra). Only if you pass the in all the 3 stages within our required range, will you be recruited as Blue Commandos. So everyone, do your best".
After hearing the examiner, Surya murmers, "It seems like this exam is too easy".
Nina, "Don't be an idiot. If it is so easy, everyone can pass. There is definitely something different about it and and is not easy as he make it sound". She said in a low voice.
As they were talking, the arena was set up for the first stage. Everyone looked at it but couldn't understand what it was.